Climate change makes both the vector and virus carry dengue fever ever higher up Nepal’s mountains
With preparedness lax, it is now only personal protection (and luck) that will save Nepal from another serious outbreak
Last year’s dengue virus is in mosquito larvae, ready to spread when the rains come
Vermilion rice paste and barley shoots prepared for Tika. All photos: SUMAN NEPALIAfter two years of relatively muted Dasain festivities due to…
VECTOR FOR VIRUS: Stagnant pools of water, an ideal breeding site for the dengue mosquito, outside the Sukraraj Tropical & Infectious Diseases…
All Photos: Suman NepaliFor the past two years, the preoccupation of the government and people of Nepal has been with the pandemic. But just as…
Haphazard urbanisation in Nepal has created ideal conditions for the mosquito that carries the disease
Epidemics are nothing new in Nepal. In fact, the country’s history is littered with references to frequent outbreaks of cholera, influenza,…
A quarantine zone at Nepal Army's headquarters in Tundikhel. Photo: BIKRAM RAIBy now the novel coronavirus pandemic has affected every corner of…
HIGH AND DRY: A village in Mustang is one of the increasing number of settlements that have been abandoned because of water shortage caused by…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYrj1Et-9PkSir Jeremy Farrar is a British medical doctor and researcher with 30 years of experience in tropical…
Illustration: SONNY ROSSThe climate crisis is making people sicker – worsening illnesses ranging from seasonal allergies to heart and lung…
A dengue patient being treated from inside a mosquito net at Teku hospital, Kathmandu. Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAn unusually wet monsoon, increased…
Global heating has fanned the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue across the Himalaya
